Christopher Moore's History News

I missed this one last week. The Writers' Trust announced the 2025 winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (given  ...

I know what that means. Gregory Joseph Clancy died at the age of 20 on April 16, 1945, in the sinking of HMCS Esquimalt, the last Canadian w...

Saw the recent obituary for J. R. Miller , longtime history prof at U. Saskatchewan and the historian of treaties, residential schools, and ...

Like many Canadians, I'd barely heard of Charlie Kirk.  I try not to get very deep in the weeds of Trumpazoidal America.  But given how ...

I figure, who but the author cares about the tenth or fifteenth book on a "short" list? CBC Books had a twenty-five title shortlis...

Down last night to the gothic halls of Trinity College, U of T, for the launch of The Coutts Diaries: Power, Politics and Pierre Trudeau .  ...

Yorkminster Park Baptist Church hosts an impressive speakers' series open to all each year from its spacious premises just north of Yong...

The cover story at Canada's History magazine for October-November is a Remembrance Day story -- and it's mine.   Here's the cov...

The Globe and Mail reports the death at 81 of historian and longtime University of Toronto professor Paul Rutherford : Paul was a historian...

    Sometimes called the greatest sports book ever.  I've had this copy since it was first published.  Glad to have it. Just noticed: it...

The Irish Famine of 1845, now 180 years in the past, is having a moment. The Champlain Society recently posted a "Finding "  -- a ...

The J.W Dafoe Book Prize, presented by the Dafoe Foundation that honours the crusading twentieth-century journalist John W. Dafoe, announce...

The ever-curious Lawyers, Guns and Money blog claims today, more or less, as the arrival of The Internet . [W]hen did people in general sta...

I'm kind of moved to see that the book banning crews obsessively thinning out the school libraries of Alberta are still including Margar...